Brake-operating means



Jimmie 19, 1928;

R. s. SANFORD BRAKE OPERATING MEANS Filed March 1926 INVENTOR Rog 5.5a BY IATIORNEY @atented June 12, 1928.-

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htidfidd BOY S. SANFORD, F SO'UTH BEND,,II\TDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO BENDTX BRAKE COMPANY,

, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BRAKE-OPERATING S.

Application filed March a, 1926. Serial No. 92,129.

This invention relates to brakes, and'is illustrated as embodied in novel-operatingmeans for a brake on an automobile wheel. An object of the invention is to provide a 6 simple and inexpensive support for the brake-applying shaft, or equivalent brakeapplying means, in.cases where interference With'the radiator or other reason prevents supporting it on the chassis frame, without 10 requirin any modification of the axle.

.Accor ing to the present invention, the

means for securing the spring to the axle is utilized to support the brake-applying means, for example by providing a project 1 ing supporting arm on the usual spring pad. Where the brake-applying means includes a .horizontal shaft, it will ordinarily be sup-.

ported at one end by this arm, and universally supported at its other end by the brake substantially at the swivelling axis of the.

,wheel knuckle.

The above'and other objects and features of the invention, includin various novel combinations of parts an desirable particular constructions, will be apparent from the following description of one illustrative embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a partial perspective showing parts of the front axle'and associated parts of an automobile chassis; "andv Fig; 2 is a vertical -transverse section through the brake shown in Fig. 1.

The chassis illustrated includes a frame .10, supported by springs '12 on a front axle 14 and a rear axle (not shown). At the end of axle 14 there is swivelled, for example by a king pin 16, a knuckle 18 rotatably supporting a wheel (not shown).

40 The brake-includes a drum 20, shown in Fig. 2 but not in Fig. 1, and which rotates.

with the wheel. The open side of the drum isclosed by a backing plate 22 carried by knuckle 18. Brake shoes 24. anchored on plate 22 are arranged to be forced against the drum 'to apply the brake, against the-re sistance-ofreturn springs 26, by m ans such as a double cam 28. The particular ke illustrated is more fully described in ,Patent No. 1,567 ,7 16, granted to Bendix Brake Com-f pany on December 29, 1925, on an application filedby Adiel Y. Dodge.

The present invention relates to supporting the rake-applying means'at least in part by the means for securing spring 12 to axle operated by a lever 38.

by a vertical pin 4=4, which connectors are arranged in a cylindrical cross bore in the 14. In the particular embodiment illustrated, 'a spring pad 30, having an integral upwardly-projecting arm 32, rests on the top of the spring, the'p'ad and the spring being encircled by U-bolts 34 clam ing the spring .to the axle. The brake-app ying means is end of shaft 40. v

-While' one illustrative embodiment has been described in detail, it is not my intention to limit the sco e of the invention to that particular embo iment, or otherwise than by the terms of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In an automobile chassis having a front axle, a road wheel swiveled at the end there-. of and provided with brake'mechanism, a frame member, a spring supporting the frame member upon the axle, a pair of spaced apart shackles securing the spring to the axle, a bracket having a foot seated upon the spring between the shackles extending at each endunderneath the shackles and secured to the spring thereby, said bracket having a supporting arm extending upwardly from the foot and provided with a 5 bearing at its upper end, and a brake operat ing 00111186131011 having one end connected with the brake mechanism and the other end mountedwithin the hearing at the upper end of the bracket so that said connection 10oextends substantially horizontally.

2. In anautomobile chassis having a front axle, a road wheel swiveled on the end of the axle, said road wheel provided with brake mechanism including a drum and retarding, 105 means associated therewith provided with an operating connection, a frame member, a

having a foot seated on the spring between the shackles and extending at each end under the. adjacent shackle and secured to the spring thereby, said bracket having an upright arm provided at its upper end with a bearing disposed substantially horizontally opposite said brake operating connection, and an operating rod connected at one end with said brake operating connection and supported at the opposite end by the bearin 10 the brake drum.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

- ROY S. SANFORD. 

